The Nationwide Union of Native Authorities Staff stated it might maintain a nationwide day of prayer and fasting in direction of victory for native authorities autonomy on the Supreme Court docket on Thursday.
The nationwide president of NULGE, Hakeem Ambali, made this identified in a textual content message despatched to our correspondent on Wednesday in Abuja.
The PUNCH studies that the Supreme Court docket has mounted Thursday to ship the judgment in a go well with looking for full autonomy for the 774 native governments within the nation.
The go well with was filed by the Nigerian authorities towards the 36 state governors.
“NULGE declares Tomorrow a day of nationwide prayer and fasting in direction of victory for Native Authorities Autonomy at Supreme Court docket,” the message by Ambali learn.
The Nigerian authorities had filed a go well with on the Supreme Court docket towards governors of the 36 states.
Within the go well with marked SC/CV/343/2024, the Federal Authorities is looking for full autonomy for the nation’s 774 native governments.
The Federal Authorities can also be asking for an order stopping the governors from arbitrarily dissolving democratically elected councils.
It’s commonplace for governors to sack elected councils and impose caretaker committees of their stead.
Within the go well with filed by the Lawyer-Normal of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, the Federal Authorities additionally requested the Supreme Court docket to authorise the direct switch of funds from the federation account to native governments — by the structure.
The go well with is hinged on 27 grounds; “That the structure of Nigeria acknowledges federal, states and native governments as three tiers of presidency and that the three acknowledged tiers of presidency draw funds for his or her operation and performing from the federation account created by the structure,” the originating summons reads.
“That by the provisions of the structure, there should be a democratically elected native authorities system and that the structure has not made provisions for some other programs of governance on the native authorities degree apart from the democratically elected native authorities system.
“That within the face of the clear provisions of the structure, the governors have failed and refused to place in place a democratically elected native authorities system even the place no state of emergency has been declared to warrant the suspension of democratic establishments within the state.
“That the failure of the governors to place democratically elected native authorities system in place is a deliberate subversion of the 1999 Structure which they and the President have sworn to uphold.
“That each one efforts to make the governors adjust to the dictates of the 1999 Structure by way of putting in a democratically elected native authorities system, has not yielded any end result and that to proceed to disburse funds from the federation account to governors for non current democratically elected native governments is to undermine the sanctity of the 1999 structure.”
The Federal Authorities requested the apex courtroom to invoke sections 1, 4, 5, 7, and 14 of the structure to declare that the governors and state homes of meeting are underneath obligation to make sure democratically elected programs on the third tier.